Passage 4

On the Gītā: 2.13

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In plain words

“Now take another example. Suppose you are twenty-five years old. If someone asked you where you were on some day ten years ago, you could not say. But it is true that you were, is it not? You certainly cannot say, 'I was not,' can you? So it is with what happens across bodies too! You were there, only the events are not in your memory. In just this matter, the one who has strength of Buddhi does not fall into delusion. Only such a person do they call a “jñāni”. The Ātma is not something that goes; the body is not something that stays. Well then, if you grieve over their death, does that give their Ātma any joy? To say so is more foolish still. Whatever is done to it, the Ātma knows no sorrow.”

Sri Satchitananda Sai